I have an idea for a dystopian fiction story starring Madison Cawthorn and his BFFs Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, and of course his idol, Donald the Dunce King. What if we all woke up tomorrow as smart as them? Seriously? If every single one of us woke up, only knowing what those five know and having the skills set that they have. How long do you think the hospitals would keep running, the planes would stay in the air, the wheels of manufacturing and business keep turning? I don’t think very long. I think the minute that our knowledge and survival skills were limited solely to what Cawthorn and cronies actually know how to do, personally, we would be totally SOL.
We know Boebert can’t run a restaurant, she poisoned her customers. Greene is wealthy so her so-called business is a toy more than anything. Same with Gaetz, to the manor born, King Donald couldn’t bus the tables at Mar-a-Lago competently, and Cawthorn is arguably even dumber than the rest of them. But despite that, he is bragging about how proud he is to be ignorant and stupid.
And if you want what he has, you need to drop out of school like he did.
Madison Cawthorn today to an audience of mostly college students: “I think you should home school. I was home schooled all the way through. I am proudly a college dropout. Unless you are becoming a doctor or lawyer or engineer, I highly encourage you to drop out.” pic.twitter.com/fgQ6v2yjKf
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 21, 2021
What Cawthorn doesn’t tell you about home schooling, although the example he sets screams it, is that doing a job isn’t just knowing the details of the job. Doing a job requires team work, communicating with other people effectively, problem solving, all of that. You learn those things in school. School socializes people. It doesn’t just teach them how to read and write, it hopefully teaches how to be a good member of society.
Cawthorn is clueless on that level. He was famous for harassing women the one semester he was in college. Now he’s a star in the right-wing firmament and he gets to be even more out of control.
It will be interesting to see how long Cawthorn’s star stays on the ascent. He’s made a lot of enemies back in his home state, but he feels quite confident of reelection, we are told, due to a heavily gerrymandered district. Hey, if it works for Paul Gosar and Jim Jordan, why not Madison Cawthorn, right?
A lot can happen between now and next November. Cawthorn might find himself out of Congress and in need of a job. Since he has no marketable skills other than trolling, if Newsmax or OAN don’t hire him, maybe he’ll have to go back to school? Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
One of his faves, Emerald Robinson, crashed and burned at Newsmax recently and she sank into obscurity like a rock. Maybe Cawthorn should think about that?
To answer the question you opened with, what we saw in the movie Idiocracy would be Utopia compared to the world you asked about.
Someone should hand him a list of all the jobs that need college degrees. And then point out he’s in one of the very few fields that requires no degrees or even certificates.
Or any knowledge whatsoever in fact.
Cawthorn is secondary only to the great pumpkinman in being a national embarrassment. He should climb back into his slimy hole and disappear.
Apparently he and his wife are divorcing. (Maybe she was hoping for an adult husband.)
The story with that basic plot was written many years ago.
‘The Marching Morons’ by Cyril Kornbluth.